[pvrusb2] Ability to fully reset a PVRUSB2 Device

Diego Rivera diego.rivera.cr at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 11:51:33 CDT 2019


No, but thanks for the info!! The devices (yes, it's two of them ☺) do seem to run a little hot so
that may be a factor here on why they're hanging. I'll also look into getting them a decent power
supply.
Cheers!

On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 16:48 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 4:06 PM Diego Rivera <diego.rivera.cr at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Every so often one of the devices ceases to function and just "dies".
> It has been a long long time since I touched one ofthose, but I would always look at the root
> causesof the hangs first.....
> The two most common issues with the HVR-1950that I ran into is that it can overheat (and hang)and
> the power supply can be going bad (and thedevice hangs).
> For the first, I found avoiding stacking them (whichI had been doing) was sufficient to avoid
> overheating(although your location may vary and you may needactive airflow), and for the second, I
> replaced thepower adapter.  FWIW, I don't think any of thepower adapters that I ever got from
> Hauppaugewere of good quality, and I usually just replaced thempro-actively with a high quality
> switching supply(at the time I had a local source of delta brandedoem switching supplies that were
> dirt cheap andnew in box).  Note that you typically can't just usea VOM on the adapter to test,
> you have to put theadapter under load and look at the ripple.  Usuallyjust easier to replace the
> power supply.
> And none of this was actually in response tothe question you
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Diego Rivera

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